This article offers an anthropological reading of the works of Immanuel Kant and Kwame Nkrumah. By doing so it seeks to expose the Eurocentric and racist ontology that lies behind dominant contemporary forms of cosmopolitanism. The article draws attention to the possibility of a more egalitarian vision of the “world as one” that can be derived from the perspective of an African philosophical viewpoint. Rather than regarding African social theory as a subordinate or subaltern mode of apprehending the world, it places African philosophy on a par with European traditions of philosophical thought. By focusing on some of the central tenets of cosmopolitanism, it argues that Nkrumah, by insisting on freedom and equality for all of humanity, had articulated a more genuinely cosmopolitan ontology than any that can be derived from the philosophy of Kant. The article argues that an engagement with critical anthropology enables us to imagine forms of decolonised cosmopolitanism which are genuinely both inclusive and egalitarian.

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去殖民化世界主义：伊曼纽尔·康德和夸梅·恩克鲁玛关于世界一体的人类学解读

本文提供了对伊曼纽尔·康德和夸梅·恩克鲁玛作品的人类学解读。通过这样做，它试图揭露当代世界主义主流形式背后的欧洲中心主义和种族主义本体论。这篇文章提请注意从非洲哲学观点的角度得出的“世界一体”的更平等愿景的可能性。它没有将非洲社会理论视为理解世界的从属或从属模式，而是将非洲哲学与欧洲哲学思想传统相提并论。通过关注世界主义的一些核心原则，它认为恩克鲁玛坚持全人类的自由和平等，阐明了一个比任何可以从康德哲学中推导出来的更真实的世界主义本体论。